Let the bitterness and blame begin!

From The Washington Post:

When Democrats took control of Congress in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to jointly push an ambitious agenda to counter 12 years of Republican control.

Now, as Congress struggles to adjourn for Christmas, relations between House Democrats and their colleagues in the Senate have devolved into finger-pointing.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of developing "Stockholm syndrome," showing sympathy to their Republican captors by caving in on legislation to provide middle-class tax cuts paid for with tax increases on the super-rich, tying war funding to troop withdrawal timelines, and mandating renewable energy quotas. If Republicans want to filibuster a bill, Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the Republicans to talk it to death.

Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of governance.

Democrats in each chamber are now blaming their colleagues in the other for the mess in which they find themselves. The predicament caused the majority party yesterday surrender to President Bush on domestic spending levels, drop a cherished renewable-energy mandate and move toward leaving a raft of high-profile legislation, from addressing the mortgage crisis to providing middle-class tax relief, undone or incomplete.

It took the old Democrats 40 years of control to screw things up so badly that the electorate threw them out. It took Republicans 12 years to screw things up so badly that the electorate threw them out. It has taken the new Democrats under the leadership of San Fran Nan and driven by the ideology of dailykos, MoveOn.org and DemocratUnderground just a year to frak things up beyond all hope of easy repair.

While it is still too early to make a hard and fast prediction I'm beginning to think that not only will there not be a Democrat president sworn in in Jan. of 2009, but there won't even be a Democrat majority in either chamber of the legislature.